Mayur Arvind Makwana is a software IT specialist who holds a degree in computer engineering from India, and has more than 6 years of experience in the field of information technology, covering the Microsoft, Citrix, and VMware technologies. He is currently working on infrastructure operations for a Citrix (XenApp®/XenDesktop®) and Windows (WSUS/SCCM) project at one of the leading Fortune 500 companies. He is a huge believer in certification. His current certifications include the following:
Citrix Certified Administrator for Citrix XenApp® 6.5 (CCA)
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Microsoft Specialist (Microsoft Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center)
VMware Certified Associate – Data Center Virtualization (VCA-DCV)
ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) V3 foundation
ChangeBase AOK (Application Compatibility Testing and Remediation)
Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)
Mayur writes technical blogs and helps troubleshooting issues for infrastructure operations at the Citrix Community as a volunteer. He has attended several courses and conducted training on topics such as the following:
Licensing Windows Server
Advanced Tools and Scripting with PowerShell 3.0 Jump Start
Deploying Windows 8
Licensing Windows 8
Migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7
Networking Fundamentals
Introduction to Hyper-V Jump Start
He has also worked on the following books:
Microsoft Application Virtualization Cookbook, James Preston
Windows PowerShell for .NET Developers, Chendrayan Venkatesan and Sherif Talaat
Getting Started with PowerShell, Michael Shepard
Troubleshooting Citrix XenDesktop®, Gurpinder Singh
Matthew M. Spencer is currently an architect, analyst, writer, and consultant. His career spans over 15 years across universities, state governments, software leaders, healthcare institutions, small businesses, and the Fortune 500. His work specializes in creating solutions to complex problems.
Matthew's projects have received many awards and accolades. Some of his proudest career achievements include an implementation of a multilingual collaboration and content management solution to 18,000 global users as well as creating a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution for a state government to sell technical services to other state governments for the purpose of interfacing with the FBI. Matthew has advanced to the second round of Verizon's Powerful Answers Award competition and was recently nominated to speak at TEDx. Matthew has also worked on the recently published Microsoft Application Virtualization Cookbook.
Matthew tweets often about technology at @chivalry and can be found at http://mattspencer.net/. He enjoys travelling the world, running endurance races, brewing his own beer, and contributing to The Good Judgment Project. He lives with his family in West Virginia.